Even after Valve started making Greenlight batch bigger and bigger (the more games got greenlit, the easier new titles can get into #100), it would still require 10K votes or so to get into that range, let alone #10.

But when something is so cosmically astonishing and its beauty got universally appreciated, nothing can stop it.

And by the way, it's also good that SE made it through that fast. In the Steam Dev Day just not long ago, Gabe Newell stated that Greenlight is going to be closed down. Though there's no time table on that, and there surely will be something new to substitute Greenlight, it's still good to secure the opportunity as is.